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The current temperature is 4 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 0/-5
Normal H/L temp for this date is 26/10
Wind chill is nothing more than the way the temperature would feel,...
if you had nothing to wear.
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"Profanity makes ignorance audible."
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L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
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Here we are, just one day before the giant 12 kinds of
Chili-Rama-Chili-Feed at the Grafton Federated church. Not only was my
e-mail in-box busy Thursday. So to, I expect, were a lot of e-mail spell
checks. Ole Aasand called from the sunny south and said if there were
such a thing, as a Frederadian, he probably would be one. He also told
me that the Grafton Federated Church is made up of Methodist's and
Presbyterians. Evidently, when the old Methodist Episcopal Church, --
the one "kiddy-corner" across the street from the present Federated
church -- burned down. The two groups decided to "merge" (for want of a
better term). That all took place on October 7, 1931. I read that,
because I was still checking out the inseam of my dad's pants at the
time.
Anyway,.. it would seem there isn't any such thing as Frederadians.
However, I guess, there Presbyterians, and, the way it looks
Methodistian's.
Or so it seems to me.
Rev. Lee shared the following bit to further help clarify the topic.
He wrote: >>> Let me try to explain "Federated." When a church is
federated it simply means that two or more major denominations have
combined to create one church congregation. Ours for example is
Presbyterian USA and United Methodist. The church members are either
Presbyterian or United Methodist in this particular church. I'm a
United Methodist minister appointed by the Bishop to serve this
federated congregation. When the Bishop makes the decision to move me
then a call committee is formed to call a Presbyterian minister.
Presbyterians candidate just like Lutheran pastors do. Hope this
clears some of your questions.
Rev. Lee <<< Thanks a million for caring and sharing Rev. Lee. Now I'm
beginning to understand why The Grafton Federated Church will be
offering so many different kinds of Chili this Saturday. One for every
denomination. Right?
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If you're looking for some super holiday decorations, take a drive
around Grafton. Leistikow Park is a great place to start. Then head down
Western Avenue and look at Margaret & Shane Kaste's home. Beautiful is
an understatement for their home. Then, If you want to see a cool light
show, drive by Jim and Nicole DeSautel's home. Roll your windows down OR
tune your FM dial to 88.9, and listen to the music that their lights are
set to. (Thanks Bev)
By Friday evening, Ione & Wally DeSautel's home at 1023 Kittson Avenue
should be completed and ready for everyone's enjoyment.
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The 1985 Grafton Spoilers North Dakota State High School Hockey
Champions are certainly entitled to be mentioned more than one day in
the Gazette. So, here's some more on day two.
Ralph wrote: >>> Gary, reading your comments about the Herald
concerning Grafton hockey brought back to mind all the times Serge
Gambucci complained about the Grafton style of hockey. I always took
that with a large grain of salt because I knew that Serge knew that
Grafton would be the team that knocked Central from the "always win the
state tourney", and that was what happened. Serge was smart enough to
set up his excuses early. Serge could never understand that "it is only
just a game". World peace was not going to happen any sooner if Central
lost.
Who was on that first championship team? Ralph Kingsbury <<< Thanks a
million Ralph. That question might better be asked of Graftons coach,
Keith Lindenberg, that years coach of the year recipient. However, I
will name some, and depend on the rest of the Gazette family to fill in
the names I miss.
Paul Thompson was named most valuable player, and Chris Campbell, Dean
French and Scott Kalbrener were named to the all-tourney team. While
Todd Janikowski, Danny Gaustad, Mylo Einarson, Todd Durand, Robby Wentz
and Eric Evans all got their names in the Grand Forks Herald that day.
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Speaking of hockey. The Spoilers and Fargo North faced off in Fargo
Thursday evening. The Spoilers allowed Fargo to hit the showers with one
to many goals. The final score,... Fargo 6 Spoilers 5. I don't know much
about hockey, but it seemed to me that the Spoilers committed way to
many fouls,... in every inning. The game may have looked different in
person, but over the radio, It sounded like "our" boys could stand a
short course in anger management.
======== DON'T FORGET ========
This SUNDAY - AFTERNOON
Bring your pottery out to Heritage Village in Grafton this Sunday.
There's going to be folks out there that will be able to tell you what
there worth. Then hang around for the show. The lucky ones are those
that have a pot, and,... a window to throw it our of. And,... that's no
crock.
======== SUNDAY EVENING =======
A FABULOUS PRESENTATION of the
VESSELS OF PRAISE CONCERT
Sunday, December 3, 7:00 - Grafton Lutheran Church in Grafton.
This is a guaranteed FANTASTIC holiday musical extravaganza, by many of
the areas top entertainers.
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GOTTA - GO - WORK - ON - MY - DASH
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The Gazette works best, when the folks that read it, write it. Or so it
seems to me.
"If you think you know it all. Your not thinking at all?" GLM
Write if you can, call if you can't, and, tell your loved ones they are,
before it's too late.
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